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Post by Reptisaurus! on Nov 19, 2018 0:37:19 GMT -5
Yeah, Elvis' haircut was Captain Marvel Jr's!
Michael Jackson was into EC comics, too.
And I don't think it's completely fair to dismiss the first post. The Beatles or the Spice Girls might not have been based on superhero teams, but KISS absolutely were and members of the Wu-Tang clan went by "Tony Starks" and "John Blaze." Hell, Stan the Man himself worked on a Backstreet Boys comic with Nick Carter. I don't think it started in the mid-sixties, but their has been a link between musical groups and comics for over 40 years now...
I mean, do I have to mention the Archies?
Also: Oh. Jez was just saying there was a comic ABOUT Duran Duran. I thought the band was into comics, and I kind of liked Duran Duran for a second there.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2018 0:49:07 GMT -5
I mean Linda Ronstadt's backing band were clearly influenced by super-hero costumes...   -M |
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Post by Confessor on Nov 19, 2018 1:37:41 GMT -5
Sorry to be a grump, but I don't understand the point of this thread at all. None of these bands or the general move away from uniformity among singing groups in the '60s was in any way influenced by comics. So, with that theory clearly incorrect, are we now just discussing musicians who made such outlandish sartorial choices that they sort of looked like superheroes? I think it needs to be moved to the community discussion board too
Eh, I dunno...it is ultimately about old superhero comics and their influence. It's not wholly off topic or anything for this sub-forum, I don't think. |
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Post by Mormel on Nov 19, 2018 7:15:22 GMT -5
Taking it back to the looks, say what you want about Dead Or Alive's Pete Burns and Steve Coy attitude-wise, but you gotta admit they made for a striking image together, with their mighty mane (Pete dark and Steve red), just image Google them.
As for artists that were into comics, the mid-80s thrash metal scene had a couple of notable comics fans among their ranks, like Dave Mustaine (basing 'Killing Is My Business' on Punisher), the guys from Anthrax made a song about Judge Dredd, and Kirk Hammett collects really old comics from the 30s and 40s.
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Post by rberman on Nov 19, 2018 9:05:09 GMT -5
Well, y'know, both John and Paul WERE into comics.... And sang about them too! "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" sounds like a serial of some sort as well, though it could have been radio or TV. |
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Post by rberman on Nov 19, 2018 9:06:50 GMT -5
I think it needs to be moved to the community discussion board too
Eh, I dunno...it is ultimately about old superhero comics and their influence. It's not wholly off topic or anything for this sub-forum, I don't think. I would not be offended if it moved to "Comic-Related TV, Movies, and Video Games" although it's about music and not those things. It is more about the use of comic tropes in related media than it is about comics themselves. |
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Post by brutalis on Nov 19, 2018 9:14:14 GMT -5
Earth Wind and Fire concerts and costumes in the 70's were very comic oriented. The costumes were all funky futuristic fashions and usually included a "story" of good versus "evil" cosmic musical "deities".
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2018 9:28:01 GMT -5
Earth Wind and Fire concerts and costumes in the 70's were very comic oriented. The costumes were all funky futuristic fashions and usually included a "story" of good versus "evil" cosmic musical "deities". Good Observations ...  |
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Post by rberman on Nov 19, 2018 9:31:07 GMT -5
Earth Wind and Fire concerts and costumes in the 70's were very comic oriented. The costumes were all funky futuristic fashions and usually included a "story" of good versus "evil" cosmic musical "deities". Sci-fi and comic aesthetics overlap. I think of the Jackson's Victory Tour. Styx vocalist Dennis DeYoung envisioned "Mr. Roboto" as part of a sci-fi rock opera, which annoyed guitarist Tommy Shaw, who just wanted to rock. Comic book artists, notably Bill Sienkiewicz, have done lots of work in the world of rock music packaging and promotional illustration.  |
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Post by Mormel on Nov 19, 2018 12:34:24 GMT -5
Earth Wind and Fire concerts and costumes in the 70's were very comic oriented. The costumes were all funky futuristic fashions and usually included a "story" of good versus "evil" cosmic musical "deities". Good Observations ... I remember my first reaction to watching a re-run of the Spidey-Friends episode that featured the ANAD X-Men in their Cockrum costumes, and I, being mostly familiar with the Jim Lee costumes at the time, thought "why are the X-Men dressed like Earth, Wind & Fire?" |
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Post by chadwilliam on Nov 19, 2018 18:03:03 GMT -5
Well, y'know, both John and Paul WERE into comics.... And sang about them too! "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" sounds like a serial of some sort as well, though it could have been radio or TV. Paul had a great comment in the 60's about how he believed that the comic book artists of the 20th century were our current day masters akin to Picasso. No wonder he took the time to meet Jack Kirby (and he took to meet McCartney).   |
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Post by chadwilliam on Nov 19, 2018 18:17:25 GMT -5
I was thinking about how American singing groups presented themselves prior to the mid-1960s: And after the mid 1960s:  I was pondering how the change seems to roughly date from the mid 1960s. The notion of groups having identical uniforms (like choir members, or wait staff) faded, and some bands played up the individuality of their members in personality, hairstyle, and wardrobe. In some cases like the Spice Girls, the personas were clearly manufactured just to encourage the public to differentiate the members. Do you think comic book super-teams played any role in this, or were they too just responding to a broader cultural shift away from homogenous appearance? The Beatles were surely influential in doing this well and thus encouraging others to try. Here's an example of them early in the process, when they still had the same hairstyles (going back to their "same uniform" days) but were adopting different wardrobes for public appearance.  Given how much of the 60's was a pushback to the conformity of the previous decade, I have to imagine that groups recognized the difficulty in presenting themselves as rebellious spirits who dressed not only the same as each other, but took so much of their look and style from The Beatles. I think the pendulum had swung so far in one direction that it was almost inevitable that it would move to the other extreme. When Ringo joined The Beatles he was told he could keep his sideburns but would have to lose his beard; Paul Revere and the Raiders were a good group but to be a member you had to be willing to dress up in those silly American Revolution outfits; for Freddie and the Dreamers you had to be able to perform while dancing "the Freddie". Things got so outlandish that I have to imagine at some point, some guy eventually just said "Why?" and that was that. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 19, 2018 19:52:44 GMT -5
I've recently discovered this band, Turkuaz. Each member wears a different color, and their colors are consistent - the bass player always wears orange, the tenor sax guy wears red, etc.  |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Nov 20, 2018 5:54:14 GMT -5
Earth Wind and Fire concerts and costumes in the 70's were very comic oriented. The costumes were all funky futuristic fashions and usually included a "story" of good versus "evil" cosmic musical "deities". Goooood call. I was thinking about Parlament/Funkadelic because I am always thinking about Parliament Funkadelic... (Forget R & B, I think Maggot Brain was the best ROCK album of the '70s) But didn't think about Earth, Wind, and Fire. I've been wonderinga about the link between comics and '70s afro-futurism since the Black Panther movie came out. Comics were often (usually?) a gateway drug to harder science fiction, and P/F and EWF seem superhero-y to me in a way that -say - David Bowie or Sun Ra don't. |
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Post by Confessor on Nov 20, 2018 5:55:20 GMT -5
"The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" sounds like a serial of some sort as well, though it could have been radio or TV. The title is definitely meant to invoke a TV, radio or printed serial, but the song is actually about a young, wealthy American business man who the Beatles met in Rishikesh in India, while they were meditating with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He was visiting his mother in the Maharishi's ashram and was, by all accounts, a bullish man, who delighted in going out and hunting tigers. Suffice it to say, judging from the waspish nature of the song's lyrics, the Beatles (or John Lennon specifically) didn't like him a whole lot. "The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill" also name drops Captain Marvel (Shazam) in the line, "so Captain Marvel zapped him right between the eyes." |
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